enxaqueca
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic الشَقِيقَة (aš-šaqīqa). Compare Galician and Old Spanish xaqueca, Spanish jaqueca.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
- Hyphenation: en‧xa‧que‧ca
Noun
[edit]enxaqueca f (plural enxaquecas)
- (medicine) migraine (kind of headache, usually affecting only one side of the head)
- Synonyms: hemialgia, hemicrania
Further reading
[edit]- enxaqueca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt